A fragile federal republic, Somalia has a central government of limited authority, power shared among clans and federal states such as Puntland and Jubaland, a de facto separatist Somaliland and the jihadist Al-Shabaab insurgency.
Political axes
Leans further toward federal than 84% of the 256 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Structure is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Power, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 262 ideologies
Tradition of republics made of sovereign provinces or cantons, such as the Dutch Republic and the old Swiss Confederacy, with local self-government, open trade, armed neutrality and deep-rooted Protestant faith.
Synthesis that unites free markets and a minimal state with the defense of tradition, family, and order, valuing individual freedom and personal responsibility alongside the preservation of customs and institutions.
American conservative current associated with Ronald Reagan. It combines lower taxes and a smaller federal economic role with free enterprise, traditional religious values, anticommunism and military strength.
The most distant ideology
Techno-SocialismRadical Left28%
Saudi prince and founder of Kingdom Holding, Alwaleed invested in Citigroup, Twitter, Four Seasons and News Corp and advocated economic opening and women's employment in the kingdom. He was detained in 2017 in Mohammed bin Salman's anti-corruption campaign.
Closest, by dimension
Other compatible profiles
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A unitary presidential republic marked by severe political instability and successive presidential removals, with an open economy based on mining, widespread labor informality, and deep inequality between the coast and the Andean and Amazonian regions.
Also similar, by dimension
The most different
A Sunni caliphate with its capital in Baghdad, the Abbasids ruled from the Maghreb to Central Asia under a caliph with religious and political authority, with a Persian-style bureaucracy, long-distance trade, and the House of Wisdom in the Islamic Golden Age.
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